Let's just accept these polling numbers. They would appear to show that people are massively ignorant about politics to still be supporting the Tories is such vast numbers and, therefore, meaningful democracy has broken down.
Democracy is falsely perceived by many people to be mostly about voting in elections. This is a view held by lots of people on this board too, especially in relation to the result of the referendum, where that majority is seen almost as something 'sacred' and the 'pure' direct will of the people made flesh.
Yet, at the same time, the same people can have close to open contempt for the 'will of the people' when it comes to ordinary parliamentary elections, where the British electoral system leads to massively unrepresentative and undemocratic results that promote and solidify the rule of a political minority over majority, or 'will of the people.'
Democracy isn't about voting. That's merely an expression, and in the UK a tightly managed and controlled expression of the democratic will. What's important is the 'political culture' of a country and 'democratic culture' which embraces far more than voting under a flawed electoral system which prioritises stability and favours big parties above all else.
If, as seems obvious, the public are massively manipulated, not least by a highly partisan mass media, during ordinary elections and then on top of that the voting system manipulates the result of the voting in favour of the Conservative Party; what exactly are these elections worth, from a democratic perspective?
In a flawed democratic culture like the UK's, suddenly imagining that the referendum is gonna produce a result that's not 'flawed' and somehow 'really' reflects the views of the people, is very odd in my opinion. Actually one can't think of a worse idea for a referendum than asking people, a people so manipulated and so easily manipulated by the media, to vote on the nature of the UK's economic relationship to the European Union... which is a vastly complex set of questions... is ridiculous.
Usually their are voices here criticising 'democracy' in the UK as a mirage, except when Brexit appears, then, suddenly, that flawed result is sacred and set in stone for all time and cannot be questioned or reversed.
But, as the latest opinion polls show, the public don't understand a thing and actually support politicians who are charlatans and determined to manipulate the public and divert them away from their own best interests. Can one even have meaningful democracy is a society that's so fundamentally undemocratic in character as the UK's? Democracy is, I'd argue, linked to equality; yet the UK is a grossly unequal society across almost every parameter one cares to look at.
When one, in reality, doesn't true, democratic, citizens, a country without a real 'demos' most of this talk about democracy is misplaced.